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Title Shooting the Mafia.

Publication Info. Cohen Film Collection, 2019.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Performer Letizia Battaglia
Event Originally produced by Cohen Film Collection in 2019.
Summary Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first dared to point her camera at a brutally slain victim. A woman whose passions led her to abandon traditional family life and become a photojournalist in the 1970s-the first female photographer to be employed by an Italian daily newspaper-Battaglia found herself on the front lines during one of the bloodiest chapters in Italy's recent history. She fearlessly and artfully captured everyday Sicilian life-from weddings and funerals to the grisly murders of ordinary citizens-to tell the narrative of how the community she loved in her native Palermo was forced into silence by the Cosa Nostra. Weaving together Battaglia's striking black-and-white photographs, rare archival footage, classic Italian films, and the now 84-year-old's own memories, SHOOTING THE MAFIA paints a portrait of a remarkable woman whose bravery and defiance helped expose the Mafia's brutal crimes. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**, **BFI London Film Festival**, and **Berlin International Film Festival**.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Balts (Indo-European people).
History.
Documentary films.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Added Author Longinotto, Kim, film director.
Battaglia, Letizia, actor.
Cohen Film Collection (Firm), Distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
Music No. 7282307 Kanopy